Bed-bottom



(No Model.)

J. G. PEACOOK, J. B. GRAVES 8v G. A. HUFFOR.

BED BOTTOM. No. 350,014. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part; of Letters Patent No. 350,014, dated September 28, 1886.

Application filed July 23, 1886. Serial No. 208,876. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN CALVIN PEAOOOK, JAMES BEARD GRAVES, and GEORGE ALLIN HUFFOR, citizens of the United States, residing at \Vaelder, in the county of Gonzales and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bed-Bottoms, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the bottoms of bedsteads, cots, cribs, cradles, &c.; and the object of our invention is to produce a bed-bottom which shall be cheaper, cleaner, stronger, and more durable than either slats, springs, or woven wire, while much more easily applied to or removed from the bedstead.

To the above purposes our invention consists in certain peculiar and novel features of con strnction and arrangement, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In order that our invention may be fully understood, we will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l is a plan view of our improved bed-bottom. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, taken diagonally across the bed from corner to corner. Fig. 3 is a detached view of one of the straining slides.

In the said drawings, A A designate, respectively, the head and foot pieces of a'bedstead, and A A the side pieces of the same. Upon the head and foot pieces, on the inner sides thereof, are secured two series of hooks, a a, while on the inner sides of the side pieces, A A are secured two series of hooks, a a. The series of hooks a are below the level of the series of hooks a.

B designatesa wire which is laced back and forth upon the two series of hooks a, and which also extends along the sides of the bed beneath the hooks a, as shown at b.

O designatesa wire which is laced back and forth upon the two series of hooks a, and

which extends along the ends of the bed above the hooks a, as shown at c. The laced wire B is thus below the laced wire 0, and both wires are turned or looped upon their respective series of hooks. As thus applied, the wires are only sufficiently taut to remain upon the hooks, but at the same time slack enough to permit of their being readily lifted from said hooks.

In order to strain up said wires, so as to prevent sagging of the bed-bottom, we employ the slides D, as shown. These slides (see Fig. 3) are each made in one piece of suitable metal, the body portion cl having oblique edges (1, turned under, as shown, and the end cl" being narrower than the end d". These slides are placed upon the Wires near the hooks a a, and with their wider ends, d, toward the center of the bed, the turned edges (1 surrounding said wires. By moving the slides toward the center of the bed the wires are strained taut, while by moving the slides away from the center of the bed the wires are slackened. Thus it will be seen that we have produced a simple and inexpensive bottom, and one which will sustain great. weight without sagging, while it is cleaner and more durable than either slats or springs or woven wire. It is to be observed that although we have described the bed-bottom as applied directly to the bedstead-frame it may he applied to a separate frame which is to be set on the bedsteadframe.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a bedbottom, the combination of a series of hooks or eyes secured to opposite sides and ends of a bed, a wire laced back and forth be tween the series ofhooks at the sides ofthe bed, another wire lying beneath the first wire and laced back and forth between the hooks of the ends of the bed, and a series of straining-slides for taking up and releasing the strands of wire, each slide embracing two adjoining strands of wire and having one end made small r than the opposite end, the smaller or contracted end of each slide being nearest to the point of convergence of the two wires which it embraces, and the enlarged end thereof toward the middle of the bed, substantially as de scribed, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN CALVIN PEACOOK. JAMES BEARD GRAVES. GEORGE ALLIN HUFFOR. WVitnesses:

J OHN RUFFUS WHITENTON, DAVID WINFIELD PILoUD. 

